From The Co-Founder of Business Intelligence Software Company SiSense

Elad Israeli

Elad Israeli is co-founder of business intelligence software company, SiSense. SiSense has developed Prism, a next-generation business intelligence platform based on its own, unique ElastiCube BI technology. Elad is responsible for driving the vision and strategy of SiSense’s unique BI products. Before co-founding SiSense, Elad served as a Product Manager at global IT services firm Ness Technologies (NASDAQ: NSTC). Previously, Elad was a Product Manager at Anysoft and, before that, he co-founded and led technology development at BiSense, a BI technology company.

SiSense, a provider of Big Data Analytics Software, recently announced Prism
3.0, the latest version of its end-to-end Business Intelligence (BI)
solution.
With over 100 new features, Prism 3.0 introduces breakthrough in data access.
Prism 3.0 enables customers to work with more data faster, regardless the
number of datasources, no matter how big their data is or how fast it grows.
A fully featured trial of Prism 3.0 can be downloaded for free here.
More Data, No Code
Traditional Business Intelligence tools require users to learn proprietary
scripting languages to access and combine data. This process prevents
non-technical users from working with data and building analytics quickly. In
contrast, SiSense makes working with data a breeze. The solution lets
business users combine data from Cloud and On-premises sources without any
coding or scripting.
“It's fantastic... (more)

In recent times, one of the most popular subjects related to the field of
Business Intelligence (BI) has been In-memory BI technology. The subject
gained popularity largely due to the success of QlikTech, provider of the
in-memory-based QlikView BI product. Following QlikTech’s lead, many other
BI vendors have jumped on the in-memory “hype wagon,” including the
software giant, Microsoft, which has been aggressively marketing PowerPivot,
their own in-memory database engine.
The increasing hype surrounding in-memory BI has caused BI consultants,
analysts and even vendors to spew o... (more)

If you follow trends in the business intelligence (BI) space, you'll notice
that many analysts, independent bloggers and BI vendors talk about in-memory
technology.
There are technical differences that separate one in-memory technology from
another, some of which are listed on Boris Evelson's blog.
Some of the items on Boris' list are just as applicable to BI technologies
that are not in-memory (‘Incremental updates', for example), but there is
one item that merits much deeper discussion. Boris calls this characteristic
‘Memory Swapping' and describes it as, What the (BI) vendor'... (more)

For a couple of years now, there has been a substantial amount of hype in the
business intelligence (BI) space regarding “cloud BI,” or business
intelligence systems hosted by Internet “cloud computing” service
providers. This “cloud BI”, which is actually SaaS
(software-as-a-service) BI, has been riding the wave of cloud computing in
general, with the lower startup costs, faster deployment and easier
scalability that cloud-based software implementations promise business
customers.
Several new companies have emerged and are promoting a new golden age of BI
which they say will ... (more)

So Microsoft PASS Summit 2010 was kicked off on November 10th, and the
burning topic was where Microsoft’s Analysis Services product is headed in
light of Microsoft’s new PowerPivot offering. Chris Webb, probably one of
Analysis Service’s biggest fans and experts, said it best:
“The last few days have been quite emotional for me. I’ve gone from being
very angry, to just feeling sad, to being angry again; I’m grateful to the
many members of the SSAS dev team who’ve let me rant and rave at them for
hours on end and who have patiently explained their strategy – it’s
certainly helpe... (more)